>>14227375I like the Bucks when they're being smarmy but AEW's biggest problems stem from the indies.
To be a titleholder in any division in WWE/WCW, there were some basic requirements:
Old school WWE/WCW: tall + muscular (Hulk, Diesel, Vader, Sid)
00s WWE/WCW: medium-tall + muscular (Brock, Edge, Triple H, Cena, CM Punk)
Modern WWE: any + muscular (Bryan, AJ Styles, etc)
Yes, there were outliers in any era (Ric Flair being the biggest one), but they were often underdogs or heels who cheated to win
These days, nobody would call AJ Styles an underdog champion against Randy Orton
The issue with AEW is that any + dadbod is now perfectly acceptable to be a champion.
Kingston is soft. Okada is getting soft. Hook is undersized. Bucks are undersized AND soft.
And now bubbling up from the indies: Women wrestlers beating/dominating Male wrestlers in intergender matches.
WWE has created generations of wrestling fans who accept that wrestling stars and champions come in all different heights, but should at least be physically imposing, if not highly muscular. AEW has spent 5+ years trying to convince wrestling fans that looks don't matter, only your ability to do moves does. But fans know wrestling is fake and the moves are part of the script.....so moves are clearly not what matters the most.
I say all that to say this: firing the Young Bucks does nothing to help. AEW needs to push more people who LOOK like stars, and get rid of the friends/shitters/nepo hires whose only real asset is doing moves well. The Young Bucks can be a centerpiece of AEW, Workhorsemen and Best Friends cannot. If they stick around, they should be jobbing 90% of the time - not losing big matches, then taking up space on Rampage/Collision against jobbers to get their heat back. Waste of TV time.
